Life

Have you ever suddenly felt the brevity of it all? Have you ever instantaneously realized that each breath is a gift; each person we love is an indescribable treasure and each memory we build with them a precious gem? Every morning we wake up with the opportunity of going to work again, sitting through traffic again, cooking supper again is an immense miracle. The fact that God hasn't stop sustaining us, that we haven't driven ourselves into the dust, that we haven't been snuffed out by tragedy or swallowed up in our own baggage and pain is a testimony every day to the beautiful heart of God, extending Himself, reaching out to us and yelling that we are His beloved. Tonight I am thankful to God for the miracle of life. Busy, scheduled, responsibility filled life that is also magical, glorious, awe-inspiring, and filled to the brim with a loving Abba Who keeps the whole thing going through Jesus, the Word of Life, the Breath of Life, the beginning and finisher of Life. Even when this brief flicker of existence we experience on earth blows out, in Him will we continue to live, free, convinced of Him, stupefied by Him, and completely awake in that moment of just being His. Continue us, Lord, in Your Life always.